4. Texas Governor Rick
Perry Republican said yesterday that
no new economic stimulus is needed to “get America working
again.” He declined to give specifics about how his plan to jump
start the nation’s economy would create jobs.

7. The Wall Street Journal reports: "European
politicians signaled Tuesday that there is no quick fix to the
row over Finland's insistence on receiving collateral for taking
part in Greece's second bailout, even as the European Commission
insisted talks were yielding progress."

10. WikiLeaks has posted nearly 134,000 leaked
diplomatic cables on the web in the last week. The
New York Times reports: "A sampling of the documents
showed that the newly published cables included the names of some
people who had spoken confidentially to American diplomats and
whose identities were marked in the cables with the warning
“strictly protect.”" Publication raises the acute concern that no
one in their right mind will speak confidentially with US
diplomats in the future.